Uh...Why Is This Female Doctor in Her Undies?

In the just-released Star Trek Into Darkness, actress Alice Eve plays the purportedly brainy Dr. Carol Marcus. So why the eff does she strip down to a bra and underwear during one of her major scenes?

Oh, no reason...except to show off her hot bod.

As one of the only notable women in the flick, the good doctor was supposed to be known for her intelligence, not her enviable rack. And after Trekkies expressed their galactic displeasure about the unwarranted strip-down, they actually got…an apology.

"I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress," the film's producter Damon Lindelof recently tweeted. "I take responsibility and will be more mindful in the future."

While it's surprising—and even commendable—to have a producer actually own up to the fact that he put a gal in her skivvies for no apparent reason, this kind of thing happens all too often in movies.

A recent study by USC of women in film showed not only that women have way fewer speaking roles than men do, but over 30 percent of actresses play sexpots or show major skin. (This is actually the highest percentage in the five years that researchers have been tracking this issue.)

So, props to Lindelof for coming clean, but until a woman can be a doctor without having to show her boobs, we have a lot more work to do.